Inga Beale, the chief executive of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, became the first woman to rank first on a power list of the world’s top 100 LGBT business executives on Monday. Beale is also the first openly bisexual person to top the list, which was compiled by the U.K.-based OUTstanding business network that campaigns

Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it would recall 6.5 million vehicles globally to fix a defect in the power window switch in models including the Yaris/Vitz subcompact, Corolla and Camry. About 2.7 million of the recalled cars are in North America, 1.2 million in Europe, and 600,000 in Japan, the company said. It said

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to finalize a deal for China to cover 30 percent of the cost of a new nuclear power station in western England, according to the Financial Times. The proposed total cost is 24 billion pounds ($37 billion.) The plant, which could be completed by 2025, will be based at

This piece was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations. What exactly is the objection to UK Chancellor George Osborne’s desire for the United Kingdom to be Beijing’s “best partner in the West” and to have a “relationship that is second to none”? After all, there is not a country on earth that does

As Arsenal fans nervously took their seats ahead of a crunch Champions League match with Bayern Munich on Tuesday night, the scene at the Emirates Stadium was conspicuous for the hundreds of empty seats in the away end. Fans of the German champions—who were eventually defeated 2-0 by the Gunners—were staging a protest against ticket

Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to finance nuclear power stations in Britain, crowning a visit that Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will unleash a wave of investment from the world’s second largest economy. What you need to know about the President’s visit After a day of pomp, Communist Party General

LONDON (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to finance nuclear power stations in Britain, crowning a visit that Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will unleash a wave of investment from the world’s second largest economy. After a day of pomp, Communist Party General Secretary Xi on Wednesday turned from

This article originally appeared on the Chatham House website. A key goal of Britain’s assiduous courtship of Beijing is to establish London as the main offshore centre outside Asia for the trading of the renminbi as China’s currency internationalizes. All the signs are that Prime Minister David Cameron is achieving his aim. President Xi Jiping’s

The White House condemned Russia’s “red carpet welcome” for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow on Wednesday, saying that the visit was counter-productive to a political transition in the country. Assad arrived in Moscow on Tuesday to meet with his most powerful foreign ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in what was his first foreign visit

The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said in a statement issued on Wednesday that Britain must resettle more than a hundred Syrian asylum seekers who arrived at a British military base in Cyprus on boats after being abandoned by people smugglers. The 114 Syrian refugees, including 28 children, arrived on two boats at the British